I'm glad we can now dead the notion that Ali/Frazier/Holmes/Foreman,etc are too small to beat Fury

[Joe Beamish]

A lot of Tyson Fury fans felt that the prior generations of boxers would be too small to match up with Fury in a hypothetical H2H fight.

I've seen claims that even guys like Bowe or Lewis were too small in comparison, so they'd likely lose to Fury too.

Now, I'm not saying every previous ATG beats Fury because of this logic, but the opposite is true. Now we can say for certain that the "small" heavyweights wouldn't be too small for Fury.

Discuss.

You took the words right out of my mouth. I think this argument was settled very finally on Saturday.

[Atypicalbrit]

Fury had had the success he's had because of his dimensions. But he's not a special talent. Many feel if Fury didn't have those advantages in height and reach he'd not have had half the success he's had

This view is too harsh, Fury isn't nikolai valuev he has a lot of good attributes outside of size. Age has started catching up to him at a relatively young age as well.

[Smash]

people go on about furys size, but he carries a lot of blubber as well, i mean he must have idk 10 to 15 pounds of fat on his body even when hes slim possibly

[daggum]

wasnt there a wilder would ko joe louis thread?

[tonysoprano]

I was calling him a con man for years, glad people have finally caught on. Take away the height and reach and what does he have left. Nothing. He’s garbage, flicky jabs and arm punches.

George Foreman would have broken him in half. Sonny Liston would ****ing beat him half to death. Joe Louis would have put him into orbit. Ali would have clowned him. Tyson, Lewis, Bowe, Holyfield all beat him up.

Some ******s were saying he’s an ATG HW, he’s not even in the conversation.

And if the lying con-man ever has the guts to get in the ring with Joshua, he will get flattened. Which is why he’ll never do it. AJ would knock this bum out.